Leadership in the Future

Traditionally, successful organizations have a combination of leaders and managers at each level. Leaders provide the vision and the overall mission that the organization strives to achieve, while managers administrate the day-to-day activities that help achieve the vision. Organizations cannot long survive without both leaders and managers: organizations without leaders lack the vision for long-term success; organizations lacking managers do not have the infrastructure necessary for the discipline to achieve the leader's vision. Leaders guide organizations in new directions while managers set forth the policie

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lvement with job design and performance eliminates some of the day-to-day management activity of the transformational leader, and enables the leader to pursue avenues that can bring change to the organization that have long-term benefits (Kouzes & Posner, 1997, p. 133). Transformational leadership can lead to significant changes in the organizations it serves (Rost, 1993, p. 124). Through these transformations, organizations grow and mature into organizations that support transformational leaders. The result is a continuing cycle in which transformational leaders are supported by a transformational organization, and transformational leaders, in turn, cause increases in the level of transformation of the organization. Traditional Organizations Vertical specialization is a hierarchical division of labor that distributes formal authority and establishes where and how critical decisions are made (Vickers & Waterson, 1991, p. 445). The distribution of formal authority can most easily be seen in descriptions of typical managerial duties. Top managers and senior executives implement the overall strategy of the organization as determined by elected officials. These managers are also the company's final judges for internal disputes,
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